Usability Improvement

[Valorie Zimmerman]

I'm interested that you say you have installed Kubuntu on tens of
thousands of machines. If so, perhaps the KDE list for people who run
large deployments would be the most suitable place to post:

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/enterprise

KDE is very interested in getting large deployments as pain-free as
possible. We in Kubuntu can be helpful at the packaging level, but not
directly in software development or fixing bugs at that level.

All the best,

Valorie

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this isn't the most correct place to post this, but perhaps it
> could make it's way to the correct person.
>
> I've put Kubuntu on 10s of thousands of machines over the years and a very
> common problem that I run into is with the KDE wallet system.  I meant to
> write in with this suggestion years ago, but it got out of site, out of
> mind.  However I just did a little tech support for someone that was very
> very angry about the situation, so I thought I should finally say something
> (better late than never).
>
> So the problem is that when you first login it tells you set a password for
> the wallet, but it doesn't really give you any of the implications of
> setting that password so it then becomes a giant annoyance to those that
> don't care about protecting their passwords and just want their system to
> leave them alone.
>
> So my thoughts are that without changing the wallet system itself perhaps a
> different initial setup could be created that briefly tells you what the
> wallet does and then asks you to pick from 3 levels of security for the
> wallet such as:
>
> Low security: Just store my passwords in the wallet without a password
> Medium security: Set a password for your web passwords but keep the local
> passwords without a password so your wifi "just works"
> High security: Set a password for all passwords in the wallet
>
> Only the second and third option would prompt for a password.
> I suppose you could have a 4th option to not use the wallet at all, but I
> wouldn't recommend that to anyone.
>
> I believe that simple change would keep people not only more educated about
> what the wallet is, but will make them happier with KDE in the long run...
> (and keep people from yelling at me in the future <grin>)
>
> Thanks for reading my rant,
> Brian Cluff
>
>
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